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606 Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy
everything pertaining to Pearl Harbor was being destroyed or
had been destroyed.
I fi nd that Col. Sadtler was told by Brig. Gen. Isaac Spalding
sometime in August 1943 that Brig. Gen. J. T. B. Bisssell had
told Gen. Spalding that certain messages, pertaining to Pearl
Harbor had been received and were in the fi les of G-2 on 7
December 1941 and that Bissell had deemed it most necessary
to destroy them.
Clarke’s Conclusions
I fi nd that Spalding was not told by Bissell that certain messages
had been received, were in G-2’s fi les and that Bissell
deemed it necessary to destroy them.
I fi nd that Sadtler did not tell Friedman that Spalding had told
Sadtler that certain messages implementing the Winds Code
message were destroyed as a result of an order of Marshall.
In the end, Clarke concluded:
I fi nd that no written message implementing the Winds Code
message was ever received by G-2 [Military Intelligence, Army],
and I fi nd that no records pertaining to Pearl Harbor have been
destroyed by G-2 or by anybody connected with G-2.
He so reported to Chief of Staff Marshall. 117
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Stimson Issues “Official Report . . .”
—(August 29, 1945)
As we have seen, Stimson refrained from releasing the APHB
report when it was completed in October 1944. However, upon
117 Ibid., pp. 75–76. (August 13, 1945) Clarke report (part 34, p. 76).